What is Public Health?

Fruit representing Concept of public health services and healthy way Throughout this module, you have read about governmental and nonprofit agencies that work to improve the health of the people and communities they serve. Public health is the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community. The organizations you just learned about not only work to improve public health, they play an important role in developing and implimenting public health policy.<

"Public health professionals work to prevent problems from happening or re-occurring by implementing educational programs, developing policies, administering services, regulating health systems, and conducting research.

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